Banner year at box office ... "Deepening anxiety in Hollywood that the ascendance of Netflix would keep people from going to the movies this year appears to have been overblown," the L.A. Times' Ryan Faughnder reports:
- "Major hits, including Marvel Studios' 'Black Panther,' Universal Pictures' 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' and 20th Century Fox's 'Deadpool 2,' drove ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada to a record-breaking $11.8 billion this year, according to preliminary projections from ... Comscore."
- "That would represent growth of 6% from a year ago and beat the previous record of $11.4 billion in ticket sales set in 2016."
Why it matters: "The surge is welcome news for studios and multiplexes, ... after a steep downturn in attendance in 2017 ... stoked fears that buzzworthy programming on streaming and cable TV had sapped the movie industry of ... cultural clout."
-Axios
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